March began with white coated doctors at the White House, unable to reconcile the lies of a rabid socialized-medicine hound, committing malpractice by failing to first do no harm by clothing the big-eared, self-described mutt in a strait jacket.

We hope Sandra Bullock Blind Sides Oscar’s dogs tonight, but Braves-Gamecock hopes the madness continues with his undergraduate alma mater’s Terriers making the Big dance for the first time:

Since moving to Division I in 1995, the Wofford men’s basketball team has never made the NCAA tournament.

But this might be the year.

“I would streak back to Radford if that were to happen,” said Wofford coach Mike Young, a Radford High School graduate.

Young, 47, has steered Wofford (21-8, 13-3 Southern Conference) to its first 20-win season at the Division I level.

“There’s a lot of things to enjoy with a Heineken in hand this spring, but still a lot to accomplish,” said Young, an Emory & Henry graduate.

The winner of Thursday’s game between Wofford and visiting College of Charleston (19-9, 13-3) will clinch the SoCon regular-season title — and an automatic bid to the NIT, should that team not win the automatic NCAA bid that goes to the SoCon tournament champ. Wofford has never been to the NIT, either.

Wofford, a Spartanburg, S.C., school with just 1,439 students, has won eight straight since losing to Bobby Cremins’ College of Charleston squad 70-68 last month.

Wofford’s first win over our law school alma mater’s Gamecocks since 1939 earlier this year defined the regular season.

Last year’s leading Southern Conference  March Madness star now an NBA sensation

I thought Davidson’s Stephen Curry might have been too small to make in the land of giants. Happily, I was wrong…

Burning question for April: Will Cockstradamus be right about Tiger at the Masters and baseball happening every Spring. I think so.

We can see the State Capitol from atop the rock MLK memorialized, but what we can’t see and wish we could, are:

Bleeding heart liberal public college professors willing to bleed their fat wallets to ensure that more low income students won’t face tuition hikes due to the Peach State’s massive budget shortfall;

Ethics legislation passed into law that protects us from rotten peaches, despite the lack of recent headlines about lobbyist-legislator incest.; and

Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield’s (D-85) criminal records expengement bill passed into law.

Camel-not’s King doesn’t know Jack

(H/T to Rush Limbaugh’s parody with Bill Clinton as Merlin the Magician suggesting that King Obama and his square pegs’ poor fit at JFK’s Round Table.)

Jack Kennedy wouldn’t have prosecuted Justice Department lawyers and the CIA interrogators they advised for swabbing the nose of 911’s architect; Navy Seals that rubbed the tummy of terrorist muderers; nor read  the BVD-bomber Miranda rights while dismissing charges against ACORN pimps and New Black Panther voter intimidation thugs.

Evan Bayh wouldn’t have felt the need to give up a safe senate seat due to disgust with a JFK-led Democratic Party. One only wishes Bayh had the courage to have waved bye-bye to the blood-sucking vampie of a Dem-o-Bat party rather than bemoaning a supposed “broken” Washington just as We the People were exerting our will to fix D.C.

This all reminds this rooster of H. L. Menchen’s description of the World’s Oldest political party as jackels worshipping jack asses.

Finally, with more hat tips to Rush and Mark Steyn: Want to see a non-strait-jacketed ObamaCare future? See Greece:

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen – because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter 20 (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter 17 or 18.

What’s happening in the developed world today isn’t so very hard to understand: The 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, they’ve reached the next stage in social democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over. The United States has a fertility rate of around 2.1 – or just over two kids per couple. Greece has a fertility rate of about 1.3: 10 grandparents have six kids have four grandkids – i.e., the family tree is upside down. Demographers call 1.3 “lowest-low” fertility – the point from which no society has ever recovered. And, compared with Spain and Italy, Greece has the least-worst fertility rate in Mediterranean Europe.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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In Michael Crichton’s 1975 novel, The Great Train Robbery, we discover the limits of mid-19th Century England’s health care system to accurately determine when a patient has expired when reminded of the widespread demand for coffins equipped with noise making devices near the hands of the interred.

Not infrequently, undertakers were found to be premature in their under takings when sounds emanated from their pine boxes before they reached six-feet under.

But most often, the noises heard were death rattles rather than resurrections, and I wonder if the loudest non-dulcet tones emanating from Blair House last week were delayed muscular contractions of an ObamaCare corpse, as well as a convulsion of moral outrage, a decade and a half after Bill Bennett pronounced its death when perjury was, “just all about sex.”

Before moral outrage died, LBJ lied about Vietnam and chose not to seek re-election. Richard Nixon lied about a burglary cover-up, resigned the presidency in shame and repented to David Frost. Moral outrage died when Bill Clinton was impeached for repeatedly lying under oath, stayed in office and has yet to feel the need to repent.

But didn’t Paul Ryan’s Health Care Summit description of Democrats’ health care plans expose serial lying by President Barack Obama that not only was not about sex, but which is about a Dem-o-Bat blood-sucking theft of liberty from the rights of the American people to pursue health happiness that makes Watergate look infinitesimally smaller than third-rate?

Admittedly LBJ retains the prize for the most grave prevarications.

My question is, have the stimulus and health care e whoppers revived moral outrage among a majority of We the People so that even if an already November-doomed Democratic Party rams thru socialized medicine, the GOP could actually reverse the enactment of an entitlement for the first time in history?

I think so.

Moral outrage that affects the wallet is back and the Democrats are exposed like a vampire to a cross at High Noon.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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President and Professor of Law, Barack Obama too a little time off from poking CEOs with his pitchfork a few weeks ago to deride captive Supreme Court Justices at the State of the Union for overturning “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman’s 1907 Congressional Act that prohibited corporations from contributing to federal campaigns for public office.

The public insult that Juan William’s derided immediately after the constitutionally required address would have been egregious enough had the non-tenured legal expert been correct about the recent case that overturned portions of the McCain-Feingold law, but, as Ronaldus Magnus said when asked if liberal Democrats were stupid: “No, there aren’t stupid. Its just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”

Well-funded free speech anathema to Democratic party policies

Justice Clarence Thomas weighed in as well, on the kinship of pitchfork weilders:

President Obama and the media critics are wrong to say the Court’s January ruling struck down the 1907 Tillman Act that bans corporate contributions to federal campaigns. It didn’t. It merely held unconstitutional portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law which freed the Post, the Times, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Madow while putting a gag on tax-exempt groups like Family Research Council and, on the left, the Sierra Club. The Court ruled that corporations do not surrender their First Amendment rights to speak about public issues during an election campaign.

Justice Clarence Thomas skipped the State of the Union gong show. He refuses to take part in a ceremony that has become increasingly theatrical.

But Justice Thomas wonders why the left is so solicitous of the Tillman Act. He knows something about the background of that law. The Tillman Act was named for its chief sponsor, Sen. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, the arch-segregationist Democrat.

Sen. Tillman, says Justice Thomas, wanted to attack corporations because he saw them as backing the Republican Party, the leading defender of black civil rights. Tillman responded in a 1900 debate on the Senate floor to Republican criticism of his segregationist stance:

I want to call the Senator’s attention to one fact. He said that the Republican party gave the Negroes the ballot in order to protect themselves against the indignities and wrongs that were attempted to be heaped upon them by the enactment of the black code.

We did not disfranchise the Negroes until 1895. Then we had a constitutional convention convened which took the matter up calmly, deliberately, and avowedly with the purpose of disfranchising as many of them as we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.

Once again, the Supreme Court did notstrike down the Tillman Act. It struck down major portions of McCain-Feingold. But isn’t it odd to find all the right thinkers (and left doers) of today defending “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman’s legacy?

Ben Tillman was governor of South Carolina when it re-wrote its Constitution to conform to the egregious Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v Ferguson that re-defined the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law to mean “separate but equal.”

From Tillman’s one-drop rule to Harry Reid’s rule

In the late 19th early 20th Centuries, Tillman’s Democratic Party hadn’t evolved to the level of its 21st Century Harry Reid standard that accepts as equal the light-skinned that can turn negro dialects on and off at will.

No, the party of the donkey was so then so wedded to Jim Crow that they used their congressional majorities to silence Corporations that backed a Republican Party born to end slavery and enact civil rights laws.

Why limit segregation to just race?

Jim Crow’s great grandchildren now seek de jure segregation writ large, in terms well beyond race.

Yes, the Democratic Party is still a safe haven for people that slander their “typical White (read racist)” grandmothers. Now, though, instead of making them sit in the back of buses, they throw them under buses.

The Obama Administration continues the party’s racist tradition by protecting New Black Panther voter intimidation thugs in Philly while denying black majorities in the Tar Heel State the right to hold non-partisan municipal elections lest Black folks forget where their bread is buttered.

ObamaDems push criminal laws that devalue hate against White folks and deny Indian tribes the right to drill for oil on reservations.

In short, the Democratic Party of the past three centuries see governance as a cornucopia of segregation possibilities, the latest being the separation of We the People from our right to pursue happiness unless that happiness is sought with a union card or at the direction of a Pay Czar.

In their desperation to pass socialized medicine, they even sought “constructive secessions” by reconstructing Nebraska as the Medicaid master of 49 states and the District of Columbia. Even those that fired on Fort Sumter weren’t that ambitious.

Obama’s horse corpses

Recently, several Democrats and even some Republicans have suggested that the failing President replace his inner circle, dubbed by Mark Steyn as the “Four Corpsemen of the Obamalypse”. I understand why liberals would want to try and get more competent handlers in order that Obama could be more successful in advancing the statist agenda.

Thank God Obama is failing

But wasn’t Rush right, and speaking for the vast majority of We the People when he declared his desire, over a year ago, that he wished Obama would fail? Obviously.

Therefore, isn’t it time for elected Republicans and pundits to stop giving Obama advice on how to better ruin America and instead call out Obama for what he is? Obviously.

Remember Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and the Marxist dreams of his father? Is Jay Rockefeller really surprised to find that the Senator that desired to bankrupt the coal industry still pines for a coal-free nation as President.

Republicans can never make the Drive-By media stop calling us bigots no matter how much we try to conform to their PC Police codes, so why not take off the gloves and call out the Democrats for what they truly are.

They don’t care about the poor and middle class, and we can’t wait another century for them to see the dark-skinned with southern accents as equals.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Gamecock announces the dawn of only the sixth Super Bowl in which one of our favorite teams is participating, still a bit tired from our fourth week of immersion in contract law, but even more beleaguered from last evening’s defense of “right-wing Christians” accused of having taken over the federal government.

Proudly wearing our Colts horseshoe, we were surprised to find that one of our hawkish on defense and economic conservative friends thinks that a third-party Warren Buffet as President would be preferable to a return to power of the Republican Party given its supposed obeisance to Falwell fundamentalism and that the ObamaDem dominance will have been worth it once they inevitably legalize cannabis sativa nationwide.

Don’t hold your toke waiting on that one, anymore than you should wonder who dat team that will prevent saints from marching back to the Crescent City with the Lombardi trophy.

My good-natured conservative friend carries no flag for liberals or democrats, and affirmed his belief in America’s historical exceptionalism, but didn’t seem to appreciate the coincidence and contradiction of the influence of Judeo-Christian values in producing our greatness even while his libertarianism leanings blinded him to the real enemies of personal freedom in the World’s Oldest Party, i.e. the Democrats.

Contrary to Drive-by media myths of old concerning supposed Christian intent to “impose” their will on America, it is those of the modern day liberal persuasion that have done so via unconstitutional judicial fiat for decades; arguably legally thru bureaucratic interpretation of vague laws passed by cowardly congresses; and today through super-majorities over-interpreting their 2008 election mandate to fundamentally transform the exceptional America.

No, my good libertarian friends, your natural allies to protect civil liberties are those same Christians some of you love to loathe, and not Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Even if they could make marijuana legal across the Fruited Plain (and their are certainly strong 10th Amendment arguments that they could do so absent a constitutional amendment regarding the usurpation of state police powers), I missed the announcement of their intention so to do. Moreover, no true libertarian would find the trade off between legal pot, and the ObamaDem taking away of the means to earn enough money to by a pot to put the pot in.

The underlying problem I see in this mentality is the failure of the GOP and conservatives to dispel the another myth, i.e. that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.

Fact: There are 10.3 and 10.56 trillion dime’s worth of difference between Bush’s worst budget deficit ($400 billion, and even that one passed by a Democratic Congress with then Senator Obama voting aye) and the first two budget deficits of the ObamaDem super-majority.

This is a difference not merely in quantity, but in kind. The Obama spending threatens the currency and economic well-being immediately. In contrast, the Bush spending looks quaint by comparison. Why, we could slouch towards Gomorrah as a country for 100 more years at the Bush rate. Obama has us at the precipice.

Looking at the past 20, 40 and even 60 years, there simply is no comparison on civil liberties, national defense and economic prosperity between the policies of Democrats vs. Republicans. I am a conservative first, but to imagine that voting for a supposed conservative Democrat could possibly do any good while making Pelosi speaker, is just folly. Voting third party also merely empowers the left. See Bull Mooses paving the Wilson way and Perot ushering in Bubba.

Another good conservative friend with libertarian/third party leanings, albeit also a Christian not hostile to the Christian Church, asks why must conservatives “settle” for an impure GOP in arguing for Tea Parties to produce a third party to fix the system.

There is a very conservative reason why conservatives should eschew the Utopian dream of a pure conservative third party and always vote Republican: Since Eve bit the apple and man was banished from the garden, we have had to settle for a world east of Eden. This is fundamental, and together with the recent history of the Democratic Party, makes it vital that Democrats be removed from power.

The Tea Party movement is essentially a visceral reaction and revulsion of Americans to big government that will translate into a huge victory for the GOP this November. The new myth of the media is to focus on the differences between individual tea drinkers and muse about how democrats could co-opt some of them.

Poppycock!

These Lipton lovers will kick out the bums in office now, and they are democrats, all 60 of which in the Senate who voted for socialized medicine should dispel any myth that there are any moderates worthy of that squishy word in any event.

Looking back, wouldn’t we die for the Bush deficits compared to the disaster we find ourselves in now? Any rational person would. Should we make sure that next time we have power that we exercise it much better? Yes again and amen. But politically, we must stop feeding the lies that there is no difference between the parties and that a third party could be our salvation.

And Warren Buffet? Please Jesus, take time off from dominating the Party of Lincoln long enough to help me weather that nomination.

Buffett voted for Obama. Buffett is an expert at making Buffett rich no matter who is President. Buffett like to be liked by the Manhattan-DC-Boston elites, and you don’t get invited to their parties if you get too close to Christians that really believe the Bible.

And as to those Bible-thumpers with whom I proudly associate myself, does anyone ever wonder from whence came the tolerance, love for liberty and compassion for fallen enemies came but from a adaptation of turning the other cheek? Libertarians, you want the right to make a living in America? Keep more of your paycheck? Drive an SUV? Drill for oil?

Then vote GOP.

Want to make marijuana legal in Georgia? Use your free speech to persuade a majority to do so. It is Republicans that respect majorities. It is Democrats that employ judges to impose views on majorities.

Finally, an aside on the pro-life position of my good conservative Christian friend, who seems, at times, to go out of his way to make clear to assumed social liberals that his pro-life position doesn’t wish for a “national law” to impose his preference on all the states.

First, let me admit that I may be being too harsh in my criticism of this position and a bit hypocritical given that Fred Thompson did persuade me a few years ago that it is a better strategy to focus on replacing pro-Roe v Wade judges and pass state laws rather than seek a federal pro-life amendment.

That said, pro-lifers need not fear this issue politically, even as we naturally must now focus on the threat to our economy and terrorism. After all, we can fight against abortion in moral terms without changing the law; but if a president won’t defend our nation, we won;t be defended and if congress won’t let us pursue happiness and private property, we can’t fight that very well in the pulpit.

That said, either abortion is killing or its not. It is, and everyone knows it, and just as I favor every state having laws against homicides with malice aforethought for those un-tethered to an umbilical cord, I also pray for the day that America’s 50 states and the District of Columbia once again protect the umbilically tied.

And politically, pro-life is now the majority position with the generations younger than the baby boomers being even larger.

The  rooster for Indianapolis simply crows so that we not be fooled by the media into thinking there is any real political dissonance between libertarians and Christian conservatives. There is not.

And if any on our side seek purity, don’t seek it through a third party or any man-made institution promised to Eve to be as Gods with a bite of the apple. Seek purity through God.

Conservatives know Utopia is beyond this world. In other words my friends, at some level, we do have to settle.

And given the history of the Dem Party and third parties, the only place to settle is the Grand Ole Party.

Cockstradamus:

2011 House of Representatives – GOP +11, Senate GOP +1

Colts 32, Saints 22

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Dark-skinned with a Southern accent, Devan Downey will never be the Democratic Party’s Harry Reid-approved choice for a Presidential candidate. But the University of South Carolina’s Fighting Gamecock star in his team’s  prime-time ESPN win over then undefeated and number one ranked Kentucky  Wildcats this week sure showed up the light-skinned accent-less President.

Braves-Gamecock (pictured) knew, when he heard the sycophant in the White House campaign for Kentucky’s team to congratulate them on their rise to the top of the AP college basketball poll and tell them that they need not worry too much about their game in Columbia that evening, that USC would probably win, given the Barack kisses of death in post-Inauguration elections in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia.

This was the first time my law school alma mater had ever beaten a team that was ranked #1 at the time, but it was not our greatest win. Under Frank McGuire in the late 60s and early 70s, South Carolina was a major power in college hoops and even won the ACC with a 14-0 record when All-American John Roche lead the team. The Gamecocks have also won the SEC in the 90s and beaten Kentucky twice in some years.

But what is most special about this week’s win, was that the country was introduced to the jewel of a small player from the small town of Chester, S.C., whose game is anything but small.  The sports world is gaga for Devan Downey (pictured).

Braves-Gamecock nation joins forces with Tebow-nation this week to remind the NFL-creeps that whether their horse-teeth inspectors relegate the Florida Gator to a glue factory or not, matters not a whit to those that love the college game and that see it as a superior test of athletic ability and leadership.

NFL’s social darwinists can’t take Heisman away

I was not part of the worship Tim crowd, but there is no denying what a good man this is and that his achievements on the gridiron make him one of the top football players of all-time. They take the Heisman away from those the NFL shun.

That said, we are looking forward to only our sixth Super Bowl ever in which one of our teams is participating. As a life-long Colts fan who also pulls for Dixie’s falcons and Panthers, we hope the Saints go marching out of Miami as losing martyrs trampled under equine foot.

Braves Pitchers and catchers report in 21 days and we hope that before the first umpire’s regular season cry of “Play Ball!”, that Obama campaigns for the Phillies.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Could New York Democrat’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts mark the beginning of the restoration of Americans’ unalienable rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Two House Democrats in tough reelection races are asking Congress and President Barack Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts:

Reps. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) and Mike McMahon (D-N.Y., pictured) asked members in a “Dear Colleague” letter Thursday to support extending the tax cuts, which passed in 2001 and 2003 and are set to expire this year, for at least another two years. Specifically, Bright and McMahon are asking lawmakers to sign a letter to Obama asking him to include the tax cuts in his budget plans for 2010.

“Allowing these tax rates to expire during this recession runs the risk of curtailing economic expansion just when it begins to pick up and could lead to a ‘double dip’ recession,” says the letter to Obama.

In the letter to the president, the members say the Bush tax cuts should not be allowed to expire. That would put them in opposition to Obama’s stated plan of letting some of the tax cuts meant for the wealthy to expire while keeping breaks in place for the poor and middle class, consistent with his campaign pledge of not raising taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year.

In a related development, former Tennessee Democratic Party Congressman Harold Ford, now residing in the Empire State, tells the Wall Street Journal:

“First we need to cut taxes for businesses in the country, small and large,” he says. “We ought to provide a six-month exemption from the payroll tax for all firms less than five years old. We ought to extend the current capital gains and dividend tax rates through 2012. We ought to make permanent all the research and development tax credits for businesses making those investments. And we ought to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.”

I feared that the passing of ObamaCare could be the socialist tipping point from which the America we know might never recover, so I rejoice that it appears to be dead. So sure that the Dem Donkey would exhibit mule-like stubbornness and ram it through despite the lumps Scott Brown’s Plymouth Rock left on the heads of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, that I proposed MLK-style non-violent civil disobedience to force its repeal.

But we aren’t safe yet, even if they let health reform die, because the damage from a great recession that ObamaDems won’t let We the People end for three more years, would also destroy millions of lives.

Conservatives need to drink tea from deep within Alexander Pope’s Pierian Wells and mount an offensive to seize our right to make a living on our own land, and especially with what lies under it and the seas. Want a booming recovery with good jobs and the side effect of falling energy prices?

Drill. Drill. Drill.

But the federal government bans it. Want to start or expand a business? The federal government punishes it. Want to get a loan from a bank? Why would they lend with no prospects for the profits from which the loan could be re-paid. Obama demonizes anyone that dares make a profit.

The only jobs created by the non-stimulus bill were for federal regulators and lawyers to stop business from doing business lest a rare rock get turned over and harm Mother Earth. The only jobs saved were state and local paper-pushers.

We have the right to earn a living!

Unless Harold Ford’s better idea catches on and more tax-cutting Bushies grow, there is zero chance that this recession will end, and the only way possible to make it happen is going to be up to We the People.

I propose massive MLK civil disobedience. His rights were being denied then. Ours are being denied now.

If I had an oil derrick, I would wheel in onto the Mall in D.C. one night and plan the writing of a letter from a Georgetown Jail (or from Marion Barry’s former cell downtown.

This recession is destroying lives. We can’t wait for two more election cycles to create wealth.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Trent Lott is Clean, light-skinned, articulate non-Negro dialect and carried Clinton’s impeachment coffee, and, hence is Harry Reid’s perfect Democratic Party presidential nominee

Another in our ongoing “Democrats are vile” series in hopes that the American people will finally get it despite the cover given them by the Drive-By Media. The only hope is that Republican leaders stop being brain-dead nice to their dis-honorable Jack Ass Party colleagues with beltway moral equivalence and poor reading comprehension.

In other words, Elephant party members: Never forget!

First of all, Majority Leader Reid’s thanks to God that Barack Obama is not a dark-skinned Negro with a Southern accent is not only about Harry Reid. It is also about the party that chooses to make him their leader despite his slander of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas several years ago as being not intellectually up to the job of Supreme Court justice.

It is about a party that nominated a Vice-President Joe Biden that thanked God that Obama was “clean and articulate.”

And it is about a party that nominated a President that viewed his white grandmother as typical of her race in being a racist; sat in the pews of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Hate white America Church for 20 years; assumed a Cambridge police officer was racist without any evidence; and dropped election intimidation charges against New Black Panther thugs.

In the final analysis, after 40+ years of evidence, it is a Democratic Party obsessed with skin color as a weapon against conservatives that oppose race-based policies, and a party that uses race to create victim-dependent voters based on imagined bogeymen.

Trent Lott was a victim of the Democratic Party-Drive-By media fake racism allegation machine. His comments at a birthday party for the dying Strom Thurmond were not racist. The comment that America wouldn’t have had as many problems over the years had Thurmond been elected were not meant to suggest any endorsement of 50 year old segregationist policies. They were meant to make an old, dying man feel better. Trent Lott’s life since the 50’s, as testified to by black folks in Mississippi make that clear. What was disgraceful was the cowardly surrender of President George W. Bush and the GOP leadership to the Drive-By media PC police.

Harry Reid has no such cover given his documented slander of Thomas, but also as judged by the actual meaning of the words he used about Obama and the defense of Virginia’s Tim Kaine.

Kaine is all over Sunday Morning Shows with the line that Reid was “praising Obama.” Yes, he was. The praise was that Obama was a better candidate because he wasn’t too black and could turn a fake Southern aka Negro (black) dialect on and off.

Obama was praised for his “whiteness” and for being able to “act black” when necessary.

This reminds me of the praise then President Bill Clinton received from the media and many Democrats during impeachment, for being able to lie so well.

Joe Biden praised Bill Clinton as such and apparently has examined Obama’s personal hygiene  closely and found him superior to Revs. Jackson and Sharpton.

Democrats are vile racist liars

See also James Carville on terror smut.

Add the above to Bill Clinton’s outing of closeted GOP gays and documented by George Stephanopoulos treatment of White House employees and it becomes clear that the former President’s comment to Ted Kennedy during the Hillary-Obama primary battle about coffee-carrying Obama, that the Democrats also have utter contempt not only for blacks, but also for working people.

This also reminds me of many liberals in the press and Democratic Party who several years ago characterized as racist some drawings of black folks that they assumed were caricatures of blacks with exaggerated lips and other features. It turned out that the drawings were accurate depictions of real black folks. I think their reactions to those drawings, much like their assumptions that conservatives are racist because we don’t support their race-based, white-guilt infused, big government power grabs, are actually projections of their own racism.

Based upon his picture above, we assume Atlanta’s mayor, Kasim Reed (pictured), would not be acceptable to Harry Reid.

After all, look at Bill Clinton’s cabinet and the average Drive-By media news room. The whiteness abounds.

But Trent Lott and those Republicans like him, while not being racist like Harry Reid and his Democratic Party, are also part of the problem in keeping the America people ignorant of the rot that is the Democratic Party.

Bill Clinton was impeached by the House but when the matter moved to the Senate, then GOP Majority Leader Lott kept the most damning evidence against Clinton under lock and seal, where it remains to this day. No, it wasn’t just about sex (see also perjury and obstruction of justice), but it could have been more about missile technology to China and campaign contributions.

But the beltway protected its own.

Trent Lott should not have been forced to resign.

But Harry Reid should. The problem is that the Pelosis and Obamas that would have to force him out are just as vile as he is.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Americans were promised change and yet, as many have asked, where is it? With Congress saving jobs in phantom districts, fake zip codes being used for stimulus funding, and not to mention Obama’s lavish lifestyle citizens have to see the complete disconnect between our sacrifice and the Democrats luxury.  First, it is to be expected that the President of the United States is going to be busy and that 99% of his/her life is going to be on the tax payer dollar.  Most of us get that.  With the speed of information and a good attitude of “dirty boots” leadership one should expect the President to be on the move.  Meals, travel, hotels….the job demands certain things and even a certain level of decorum, yet, the President, as the Chief Executive has a fudiciary and an ethical obligation to maintain a measure of decorum and expectation that he/she is not abusing tax payer dollars.

For instance the White House, in June, held a Laua.  The reason is unimportant, but in a time when the President is asking Americans to tighten up, do more with less, be responsible, he has kobe beef (priced at $100 per pound) brought in. This does not even begin to address the staggering measure of other food stuffs flown in and the entertainment to boot.  Does it not also strike any one as unusual that while the President chides CEOs for thier wages, benefits, and perks, he himself maintains a Chef and is allowed to use government vehicles, offices, and property at his desire?

The president earns $400,000 a year, and has not received a raise from Congress since 2001 (not that I am pushing for one). He also gets a $50,000 annual entertainment expense account (unused money at the end of the year goes back to the Treasury.)  Then there is the use of two private jets, Boeing 747s better known as Air Force One (which when flown overseas both fly to confuse enemy onlookers). There is also of course the security details, drivers,  a country vacation estate, and the rent-free use of a well-known, 132-room mansion better known as the White House.  Of course the office of the President is a full time 24/7 job, but as CEOs have to pay taxes on the flights they take on corporate jets, the President does not.  So while he only techincally makes $400,000, using his own yard stick he benefits a whole lot more, and all this tax free of his income.  This could actually make the argument the President’s salary should be cut since he gets tax free benefits and more often then not has a substantial living once even one term is complete (assuming of course Obama does not some how become King).

So by way of example, most government employees are allowed to maintain the miles and point earned while they are on travel.  It became too expensive for the government to maintain, so civil servants that fly often gain a serious benefit. Yet they are not allowed to fly First Class.  One may ask why cannot they not pay for the upgrade or use those miles they got?  Does not cost the tax payer at all.  Well it actually does.  First civil servants earn an income paid for by the tax payer so one could assume that civil servants make too much if they can afford all those upgrades, that does assume that one bothers to research to see if said civil servant even paid for it themselves.  Each civil servant has has a fudiciary and an ethical obligation to maintain a measure of decorum and expectation that he/she is not abusing tax payer dollars.  Sound familiar?

From now until 2012 we will hear more from the President asking Americans to make sacrifices, and we will watch as Congress  approves more taxes on Americans from once seemingly happy places like the Health Care bill.  It will become strikingly clear that as Americans loose wages, benefits, and dreams of a desired lifestyle, our leadership is gaining more and more.  We will begin to wonder why there is a disparity in what we are being asked to do and what our leaders are doing.  Republicans are not free of this, yet it is more clear with Obama then any other.  So when we hear about how Michelle and Barry decided to enter a career of service  versus one of corporate privilege just remember that today, politics in America is as much as a corporation as any other.

Abu Ghraib is a distant memory, waterboarding is limited to U.S. armed forces training exercises and Guantanamo Bay detainees held without charge are being sent to the Big Apple for show trials. Yet, al Qaida was still able to find and utilize a “tool” in the Age of Obama to recruit a silver spoon Nigerian to blow up a plane bound for Detroit.

Could it be that the Cowboy recruited jihadis to die by the tens of thousands in Iraq while Obamassiah apology tours actually book more suicide bombing tours to the Fruited Plain?

It now seems clear to this observer that the Bush war on terror killed more terrorists than it created what with Iraq’s murder rate below that of Chicago and Iranians in the streets demanding the rights enjoyed next door from the ruling Mullahs rather than chanting death to the Great American Satan.

Could it be that the Arab and Persian streets, over time, saw the stark difference between U.S. enabled Liberty and the Saddams, Talibans and bin Ladens of the world and chose Liberty? It seems so in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well, where the citizens have repeatedly been ahead of the curve in wanting al Qaida out of their neighborhoods.

Would that the Western Left, including the Democratic Party could see as clearly.

It never was the Left’s Great Satan George W. Bush that recruited Osama bin Laden’s agents for their September 11, 2001 non-apologetic tours to NY, PA and DC, nor was it National Guard sadists that caused Baathists to fight on in Iraq.

The main recruiting tool that led to 9/11/01 is the same as the one that led to 12/25/09: weakness invited aggression.

The Left never understood that the Soviet Empire was evil and ignored Saddam’s hundreds of thousands slaughtered at Abu Graib before the late Ted Kennedy’s immoral equivalence saw nudity where dead bodies once flourished, and  pronounced it merely under new management.

But let’s give it another shot. Maybe Democrats will pay attention this time since their Chosen One now has the Watch.

Pat Buchanan was always wrong when he suggested that “they” (Muhammed Atta et al) were Over Here because “we” (US trade, Exxon et al) were Over There. And even if that were the case, would that mean that the Zawahiris of the world speak for Saudi and Indonesian trade deals? But I digress.

We have a source that told us why they came over here in the Third Millenium after attacking us over there in the Second. The source is none other than Osama bin Laden himself whose first recruiting tool, as documented in Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, was the jihadist, kill the infidel literalism of the Koran of Islam, preached by Sayyid Qtub in the 40s-60s with a special shout out to resentment at Attaturk’s Turkish secularism.

The Koran says what it says, and after playing an integral role with us in pushing Russians out of Afghanistan before the Berlin Wall fell, the message resonated more in Arab coffee shops. Osama bin Laden considered the U.S. to be a “weak horse” when we left Saddam in power after the first Gulf War.

The recruiting accelerated after UBL had an eye-witness view of Clinton fleeing Somalia and after Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s blood kin almost knocked down the Twin Towers in 1993.

UBL dubbed us a Paper Tiger and declared war on America after Clinton’s response to the acts of war in leveling two U.S. embassies in Africa was to kill a nightwatchman in an abandoned terrorist camp in Afghanistan while UBL continued to appear in public in that country.

UBL thought George W. Bush was made of the same weak stuff and expected the response after 911 to be another pinprick.

Osama miscalculated.

I don’t know whether he is alive or dead, but I question the value of his continued life or a martyr’s death as a recruiting tool given his now 9-year slump in achieving successful terrorist attacks against the United States.

Enter Obama and the return to the Clintonian pre-911 treatment of acts of war as mere domestic crime, complete with Miranda rights and OJ trials.

Since Osama can’t appear live on TV for fear of being bombed, why not let KSM and Nigerian silver spoons deliver the message?

To be fair, President Obama actually bombed Yemen twice in the weeks leading up to the Christmas Day attack, yet neither he nor the press have mentioned this in all the reports I have seen since Detroit was targeted. I applauded the bombings soon after.

Moreover, we now learn that Obama is going to  get tough (read: act rational) and profile airline travellers from “terror” states. But since his name isn’t Bush, this isn’t racial profiling and also not a recruiting tool?

Maybe Obama can be “coerced” into protecting America much like Jimmy Carter was transformed to “ordinate” fears of Communism after the Afghan invasion and when he was “betrayed’ by Ayatollah the Pious in Iran.

FDR, JFK and HST acted to defend America based on American values. Carter is said to have become angered due to what he perceived as “personal” affronts.

We know that Obama doesn’t share most American values given his apology tours and campaign to “transform” America. So I challenge Barack to take this attack personally and get mad at jihadists for not accepting his apologies for America. Get focused on winning re-election in 2012. After all, killing terrorists worked pretty well for Bush’s re-election bid.

Come to think of it, given the public’s view of health care reform, he might want to change that policy.

But then again, Obama may not care about re-election. He may be acting on principle to transform this country. His principles now have us in a deep recession and one Dutchman away from 300 less Americans in Detroit.

Think maybe the prospect of failing in his attack and then getting his own show trial could have been a recruiting tool for Farouk Abdul Mutallab?

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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Fake crisis to justify Christmas Eve Senate health care rush accompanied by a real Santa al Qaida-Claus (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, pictured) crisis over Detroit on Christmas Day

What new fake crisis will be ginned up by ObamaDems to justify late January rush for health care bill that takes full effect in 2013 and what real crises will result from the promise of closed embassies (Yemen) and show trials in NYC?

[H/T to that Astute, non-political, Boortzian observer from the Stone Mountain of Georgia for column title that suzy says was first coined by an unidentified blogger...as DeVine Law Gamecock returns from rare year-end vacation in Alabama only to announce that the real economic crisis will limit our normally prolific rooster crowings to weekends until fears of chicken feed shortages abate...]

Saul Alinsky-ites Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton warned of wasting crises and assisted President Barack Obama in using the real economic one and inventing others in 2009 in an attempt to re-make America with high energy tax hikes, union card check and socialized medicine.

The ObamaDems succeeded in tripling the budget deficit with a $1.8Trillion budget and other spending bills especially including a $700B+ non-stimulative government growthulus bill as they used the increasing double-digit unemployment rate they did nothing about.

Now, we can expect Obama to use the deficits he created and threat to the currency he and Bernanke conspired to manufacture, to justify further attempts to re-shape America in the leftist image he has dreamed of since his Marxist elders imparted same to him as a young man.

Meanwhile, the real crisis of terrorist war against us grows as Obama imagines he reduces terror recruiting tools by closing Gitmo; and granting KSM a show trial in NYC and the Detroit airliner bomber the right to counsel.

Doesn’t Obama and the left understand the real recruiting tools were successful attacks against the US in the 90s and on 911? Doesn’t he know that US success in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of terrorists that otherwise were bound for the Lower Forty-Eight and the promise of Liberty has been the recruiting toll that has Iranians about to overthrow the Mullah’s 30-year old regime and that are fighting to rid Pakistan of al Qaida and the Taliban?

We don’t know what Obama knows but we do know what he wants: A nation in a perpetual state of crisis on all fronts that looks to him to protect us from all fears economic and foreign as he re-makes the America from being the Shining City on a Hill to a nation that looks to the Shining Obama.

Prepare yourselves for the new fears Obama will have to gin up to get all 60 democrats in the Senate to re-make American health care in Britain’s image and to legalize all illegal aliens for membership in a labor union that re-elects democrats.

Of course, the real new fear for 2010 is the Left personified by Al Gore, Obama and the Democrats and the only remedy is to put them out of office next November.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.